'Leather could be grown in a lab'
Wednesday September 19, 2012 07:30:54 PM,
IANS
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London: The leather
jacket that you have always fancied could actually be made with
stuff grown in a lab, according to a firm backed by PayPal
billionaire Peter Thiel.
The firm Modern Meadow says lab-grown leather could be on sale
within five years, leading to a new range of ethical leather
clothing.
"Our emphasis first is not on meat, it's on leather. The main
reason is that, technically, skin is a simpler structure than
meat, making it easier to produce," a Daily Mail report quoted the
company cofounder and CEO Andras Forgacsays as saying.
"Anecdotally, we've found that around 40 percent of people would
be willing to try cultured meat. There's much less controversy
around using leather that doesn't involve killing animals," he
said.
The firm hopes the project, which recently received a grant of
220,000 pounds from Peter Thiel, could ease environmental concerns
over meat production.
Cells are sourced from a biopsy of a cow. Millions of extracted
cells are placed in a bioreactor or other growth apparatus. Cells
are put together in layers to fuse them together, and then placed
back in a bioreactor to mature.
After several weeks, no more food is provided to the cells. Skin
tissue turns to hide, and muscle and fat tissue is harvested for
food.
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